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Meles Zenawi’s federal and local police opened fired on students in the western Ethiopian town of Nekempt to disperse a protest, according to VOA.

Students in Hossana, southern Ethiopia, and Addis Ababa are also staging protests demanding respect for their rights… [read more in Amharic here]

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Ethiopian family reunited after 10 years apart

CBC News

It was a day that was a decade in the waiting.

After 10 years apart, Wakwaya Seda was finally reunited with his wife and son Wednesday.

Seda and his family are from Ethiopia. The father was with a group of political refugees who fled to Read more...

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Twin Cities Somalis despair over hawala closures

 

Amina Hassan hasn’t felt this helpless in a long time. A refugee who fled Somali 20 years ago and now an American citizen, the middle-aged single mother can’t send remittances to her impoverished relatives in Somalia anymore.

Hassan is one of thousands of Minnesota Somalis who have despaired ever Read more...

Awramba Times is latest Ethiopian paper to vanish

Awramba Times is latest Ethiopian paper to vanish

A couple of weeks ago, newspaper editor Dawit Kebede, an International Press Freedom award winner, fled Ethiopia. Sadly, Dawit's Awramba Times is the latest in a long list of Amharic-language private publications to vanish from the market following Read more...

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